• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The perfect truth of this meme is why I can never own an electric car.

    ???

    What is that retro-looking thing on the right?

    (Also why are my question marks getting cut off? I typed 9 of them but only 3 show up.)

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      1 year ago

      What, you don’t want to shift gears endlessly while stuck moving between 10 mph and a dead stop on the freeway for three hours?

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        1 year ago

        Hear me out for a second…

        Maybe, just maybe, it’s spending 3 hours in stop and go traffic that’s the problem, not the transmission.

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    1 year ago

    For me the only reason to drive manual was becase automats used to be less effective. With current generation, the computer with its 12 gears is much more ecological then my macho hand lovingly stroking my cars stick can ever be…